
Producer Joel Wentz takes the host seat again for a wide-ranging round-up conversation with Chris Smith and John Wilson about recent ERB content, intriguing upcoming book releases, and of course lots of discussion about what we are current reading!
Books and Content Mentioned:
If you’d like to order any of the following books, we encourage you to do so from Hearts and Minds Books(An independent bookstore in Dallastown, PA, run by Byron and Beth Borger)
- ERB Review of “How to Have an Enemy” by Justin Cober-Lake
- ERB Podcast episode #33 (On writing book reviews)
- The Hermits of Big Sur by Paula Huston
- The Everlasting People: G.K. Chesterton and the First Nations by Matthew Milliner
- The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium by Barry Strauss
- The Fruit Thief: Or, One Way Into the Interior: A Novel by Peter Handke
- The FSG Poetry Anthology edited by Jonathan Galassi and Robyn Creswell
- The Soul of Desire: Discovering the Neuroscience of Longing, Beauty and Community by Curt Thompson
- The Soul of Shame: Retelling the Stories We Believe About Ourselves by Curt Thompson
- Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
- Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert Putnam
- The Loneliness Epidemic: Why So Many of Us Feel Alone – And How Leaders Can Respond by Susan Mettes
- Lake Drive Books
- Reading Evangelicals: How Christian Fiction Shaped a Culture and a Faith by Daniel Silliman
- Shoutin’ in the Fire: An American Epistle by Dante Stewart
- The Nature of Economies by Jane Jacobs
- Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World by Nina Kraus
- When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep by Antonia Zadra
- When Christmas Comes by Andrew Klavan
- It’s a Wonderful Woof by Spencer Quinn
- Pilgrim’s Way by Abdulrazak Gurnah
- Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- The Second Sleep by Robert Harris
If you’d like to order any of the following books,
we encourage you to do so from Hearts and Minds Books
(An independent bookstore in Dallastown, PA, run by Byron and Beth Borger)
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